Life of a Mansion: The Story of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Life of a Mansion tells the story of the building that Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum calls home. It details how Andrew Carnegie's grand but functional Fifth Avenue mansion—which was pioneering in its design, with an electric elevator and modern steel-frame construction—was constructed. The book features the rooms in which Carnegie conducted his business and philanthropic endeavors, and where the family and staff lived and entertained throughout the mid-twentieth century. It also ...